Take your coding skills to the next level with these cool hidden Python features — Python is a marvellous programming language. Stack Overflow’s Developer Survey 2022 placed Python in the number 1 spot for the most popular programming language in 2022. Python is incredibly beginner-friendly. Its syntax is simple and easy to understand — significantly smoothing the learning curve. Python is versatile. Thanks to the…

A guide to managing multiple Python architectures on the Mac M1 using pyenv — I love MacOS. Perhaps its the certified Unix trait, its simplicity and elegance, or its seamless integration. But I love MacOS. From my experience, things just work. At the start of my professional career, I was a predominantly Windows user (and playing with Linux distributions on the side). …

A guide to improving your coding skills — Code makes the world go round. In the modern world, anything we touch or see, in some way or another, is connected to some script or program. The importance of programming is ever so evident, and the need for programming knowledge and logical reasoning is high. Nowadays, almost any professional…

A beginners guide to exploiting the power of concurrent execution and improving the performance of your Python programs. — Gordon Moore, in 1965, made a prediction that has since become known as Moore’s Law. He stated that the number of transistors on microchips would double every two years. Additionally, Moore’s Law stipulates that the cost of computing hardware will also halve during the same period.

Transform your data science workflow with these cutting-edge libraries — Python is a versatile and powerful programming language that is widely used in the field of data science. With its vast ecosystem of libraries and frameworks, Python offers an extensive range of tools and functionality for data scientists, engineers, and developers. In this article, we will discuss 4 of the…

A step-by-step guide to quickly writing any song using AI without any code — Unless you have been living under a rock for the past few days, you’ve probably heard about OpenAI’s newest innovation in language models: ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an improvement on GPT-3, driven by Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback. I won’t go into much detail on the technicalities of this model in…

Discussing the hottest trends in data science for 2023 — Introduction Data science is the new frontier for business. It’s a field that can help you solve problems, get smarter and make better decisions than ever before. But what does data science look like in 2023? Here are some predictions of what we’ll see next year. Data Science Will Explode With More Data More data is being generated…

A one-on-one discussion on planning today for a stronger tomorrow — Introduction Data ethics is the application of ethical values to the collection, storage, processing and sharing of data for business purposes. It involves applying ethical principles to protect an organisation’s stakeholders against harm resulting from poorly managed or mishandled data. The explosion of data worldwide has raised ethical questions about how organisations can use and share it.

A deeper dive into regular expressions and their syntax — In our last post, we introduced and discussed the paradigm of regular expressions (regex). Regex is a powerful tool that allows us to perform string pattern matching, replacement, and other manipulation operations. We considered a use-case as an example to build a regex to validate a hexadecimal colour value. You…